The goal of this work is to cause its readers to question post-colonial criticism of Camus. Initially, attention will be directed to the work of Conor Cruise O'Brien, who first presented Camus within the post-colonial frame. Embarrassingly uncomplimentary, Albert Camus of Europe…
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The present study is a history of interpretation. In that sense it does not fit neatly into the category of Wirkungsgeschichte. Moving through successive periods of the Christian church’s history, we will select representative interpretations of Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and theologica…
This thesis tests Clenora Hudson-Weems's critical theory, Africana Womanism, against three Nigerian novels: Buchi Emecheta's The Joys of Motherhood (1979), Flora Nwapa's Women Are Different (1992) and Chimamanda Adichie's Purple Hibiscus (2003). The aim is to determine whether A…
The parameters, both theoretical and practical, that define the uses and roles of the digital technology within the field of literary studies should be continuously rethought in order to keep up with the rapid changes in technology and reach the best possible uses. In this conte…
This dissertation sets out to understand the proliferation of literature festivals in India since the mid-2000s. These festivals serve cultural, economic and political functions in a dynamic field characterized by varying degrees of competition and co-operation between different…
Since its heyday in the early 1960s, diction has fallen out of the critical conversation. Today diction is talked about, if at all, as a matter of praxis and thus is relegated almost exclusively to workshops; and when this diction becomes poetic, it offers a clear way not to pro…
This project examines the pedagogical foundations of the film criticism as it is performed within the pages of seminal cinema journal Cahiers du Cinéma between 1951 and 1971. Founded by André Bazin and Jacques Doniol-Volcroze in 1951, Les Cahiers du Cinéma is integral to the his…
When Arthur Berger (1912–2003) is mentioned in the history books, it is often as a mid-20th century American composer, or a practitioner and teacher of music theory who, during his tenure at Brandeis University, had trained a generation of theorists and composers. This dissertat…
This dissertation interrogates multiple tensions between group identity and personal identity in African American drama. Borrowing from Kwame Anthony Appiah’s and Paul Ricoeur’s theorizations about group identity and self-formation, I propose two conceptual tools of analysis bas…
This project began with questions about the tremendous amount of time those in Los Angeles have spent inside their automobiles. “Drive Time” argues for the significance of car cultures as sites where drivers articulated numerous varieties of social difference, which have include…
Built upon work addressing the “poet-critic” in modernism (Kindley, 2017) and guided by work associated with the New Formalism, this thesis explores the development of critical exchanges in verse within modernist communities, theorizing how Ezra Pound, W.B. Yeats, and Marianne M…
While scholarship regarding Black artistry is growing in the realm of Western art music, the integration and representation of the artistry remains to be of less importance in the main curriculum of the modern music student, especially in the subject of music composition. This r…
Averaging Americans: Literature, Statistics, and Inequality was sparked by a computational discovery I made in a corpus of more than 18,000 works of US fiction: statistical words such as average, normal, and typical distinguish postbellum fiction from its antecedents quantitativ…
The composer, conductor, and writer Peter Jona Korn is not familiar to many musicians today. His works are rarely performed, but they include several works for the oboe that are valuable additions to the repertoire. Korn’s life bore similarities to many other German-Jewish compo…
This dissertation examines the genre of literary anthology as a type of adab by focusing on two works, Yatimat al-dahr fi mah[dotbelow]asin ahl al-'as[dotbelow]r [The Unique Pearl Concerning the Merits of Contemporary People] and its sequel, Tatimmat al-Yatima [Completion of the…
My dissertation primarily reaffirms the multicultural identity of the American society based on the polyethnic structure of the population and widely recognized contributions of minorities to the social and cultural development of the United States. However, my dissertation fore…